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by herf 13y ago
We are getting there - the Windows one was fading too early at night, so we had to get the schedule right first. The new schedule is a big deal, and we can build a lot from it.
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by herf 13y ago
We recovered an actual stolen camera this way. But it really only worked because the buyer used Flickr, and otherwise this kind of metadata is pretty hidden.
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by herf 13y ago
Yes, you can stream JPEG pretty easily as long as you know the output size. Also to combine JPEGs into a sprite, you can avoid all DCT/iDCT/color operations and use only the Huffman portion of the codec (decode, concat, encode). S
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by herf 13y ago
Mostly you shouldn't have to hide backend latency by reordering, and if you don't reorder, you can just use JPEG image strips/sprites, which don't need double compression. JPEGs also stream, but in an order determined by
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by herf 13y ago
Just a few years ago, this was different: devices would listen for the SSID broadcast every few seconds. But that's too power-intensive for phones, because they have to leave the wifi radio on for very long amounts of time. Now instead
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by herf 13y ago
If data like this requires a bureaucracy to generate, you might be able to protect it with a bureaucracy. If it's collected automatically and stored in one place, it is considerably harder to protect.
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by herf 13y ago
The Crucial M4 had no power-loss protection. The newer model (M500) does and would be a more interesting test.
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by herf 13y ago
Just built a new one and it's WORKING. Add http://justgetflux.com/cydia/ to sources and report bugs to email please? We will post later today.
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by herf 13y ago
Microsoft made it way too hard to upgrade out of XP (unless you updated through Vista.) It is no wonder everyone is still on XP. It would light the PC industry on fire if they made it one click to move your stuff to another machine. You can
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by herf 13y ago
I got bit by being really productive in VC6 like 10 years ago. Had a script to clone a template dsw/dsp file, which make a new one, so I have about 400 projects like that, for little experiments, little projects. Upgrading each of thes
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by herf 13y ago
Modified the text to say, yes, this is our Windows update. Many of the features are on Mac already, since we've done a dozen updates for it in the interim. But we're planning another Mac update soon.
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by herf 13y ago
Some notes-- When we recompiled for 64-bit/universal (from 32-bit before), f.lux's RAM usage went from 6MB to 29MB (but Apple requested that we change it, so we did.) You could probably set f.lux to run in 32-bit mode and have the
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by herf 13y ago
The checkin says "Win32/Sirefef.gen!C" uses it somehow. A virus that acts as a CA?
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by herf 13y ago
Crime likes a way to escape. Going higher up might just give you fewer ways to get away.
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by herf 13y ago
This proposal is too aggressive at deprecating ciphers that are the only option for some browsers (e.g., IE8). It would be useful to add an icon to the address bar that indicates the security level of the crypto used (PFS or not, etc.)
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by herf 13y ago
Yes, but you can usefully protect point-to-point communications using Diffie-Hellman or similar. You can't if you know someone is decrypting in the middle, even if they are using a common symmetric key that can be recovered by subpoena
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by herf 13y ago
When I'm root, rm asks if I want to delete a file. zpool destroy does not believe in asking.
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by herf 13y ago
Threat model is simple: people look at your passwords and type them in somewhere else. What's technically possible for serious malware, or what someone can do with unlimited access to your computer for hours is not the point. Reality i
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by herf 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
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by herf 13y ago
I read about LPRs a while ago, and since then I've noticed the cameras everywhere , all over LA. They are so much more prevalent than you think. The hardware is cheap enough ($1000/camera) that there's no purely financial re
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by herf 13y ago
yes it appears Google has PFS for Chrome/Firefox: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/11/22/forwardsecret.html
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by herf 13y ago
actually everyone seems to have switched to the "fast" SSL ciphers instead - only dropbox defaults to DHE: > openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 RC4-SHA > openssl s_client -connect dropbox.com:443 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
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by herf 13y ago
This is a very important benchmark, provided framerates and rendering quality are held mostly the same. It could easily grow to include cases like having 100 tabs open, which currently don't really appear in any benchmarks. For almost all m
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by herf 14y ago
This is also why the "unbundling" of Windows turned out so badly for consumers. Not having a decent mail app or video/photos app by default (like the Mac) means people have to navigate this crap to get the most basic things done. We (f.lux)
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by herf 14y ago
Yes we have three implementations of this, and they mostly work but only some of the time :) Problems: in a lot of dim rooms, the monitor is the main light source, and some webcams have terrible auto white balance. If you're on a Logitech c
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by herf 14y ago
Summary of feature requests so far: - default to a slower transition - support dimming too - Add an API - Sunset is fine, except in the winter Most of these are on our list but it is all good feedback!
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by herf 14y ago
We are not selling data, and we won't. There may be a premium version in the future. Some exciting improvements coming, but you don't have to worry about privacy or spam.
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by herf 14y ago
More improvements in this area are coming. There are interesting trade-offs between productivity and good sleep, and our next version strikes a better balance.
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by herf 14y ago
f.lux does look wrong in a blue-rich lighting environment (like an office building after dark.) It looks ok in most people's homes.
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by herf 14y ago
(author of f.lux here) Color adaptation actually takes about 2 minutes, and we transition by default in 20 seconds (some video cards use a ton of CPU during the transition time, so we pushed it a bit faster.) The slow transition option shou

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